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Originally posted by zeitghostBaby... it's cold outside...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7465115.stm
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The first powered flight we all know about I take it: Pearse in NZ a year before the Wright brothers, who did the first heavier-than-air powered photographed flight (actually not strictly self-powered because it needed a strong headwind to take off).
They also claim to have invented television, the first computer, the first commercial nuclear power station; all of which were actually done in Britain first. The Americans do this essentially by ignoring the rest of the world, assuming that the US was first, finding the first US date, and claiming that as the world's first date.
They did that in 1984 when Sally Ride became the first American woman astrinaut: just blithely called in Congress to celebrate another "first" for America, until it was pointed out that it simply wasn't so.
I mind all this because our children too will grow up learning that America is first in everything.Comment
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Originally posted by expat View PostThey also claim to have invented televisionCoffee's for closersComment
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Originally posted by zeitghost View PostComment
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Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostI'll give them television, the system devised by Baird was pretty crap. It took the americans to completely reinvent it, ie. nothing apart from the concept was the same as Baird's TV
Actually loads of people made separate inventions that went together to produce television. But the Americans just pick their guy and claim they invented it.Comment
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